Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own...
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His syncopated spoken style and critiques...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed...
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage is an art Created by the serious, enjoyed by the mature Watered with...
Ossie Davis was one of the most recognized and influential African American performers and activists of the late...
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
